What happens when the bulk of atheists are actually second-generation atheists? There has been no statistically significant change in the number of people who were raised with no religion between 2006 and 2016. Thatâ€™s puzzling to say the least.

Thereâ€™s a really deceptive way some evangelical Christian groups proselytize to public school students. They are well aware they canâ€™t just waltz into a school and tell kids about Jesus, so they enter the school under false pretenses â€” like saying theyâ€™re going to give a purely secular presentation. As with so many of these cases, Christians would flip out if a Muslim group did anything like this. Itâ€™s telling that so many Christian adults in these schools were willing participants in this whole charade. It needs to stop, and FFRF is demanding both an apology and assurances that itâ€™ll never happen again.

Vidya Bharati, the education wing of the RSS, which already runs 20,000 schools across India, would be running this military school as well. The project of running a military school under RSS is worrisome also because of earlier experiences which were concretised with the intervention and involvement of Hindutva activists.